May I know the difference between "LabVIEW academic premium suite" and "LabVIEW developer suite"?

[vipul982]

May I know the difference between "LabVIEW academic premium suite" and "LabVIEW developer suite"??? I need the technical differences in the functionalities.. Is there any functional limitations?

[smercurio_fc]

Did you take a look at the product pages? The "Overview" tab for the Academic Premium Suite shows what it contains, which is quite a lot. The "Full Development System" is the same as the "regular" Full Development System. It contains all of the LabVIEW core functions, but no Application Builder or SCC integration. The main difference is licensing. The Academic ones can only be used in an academic setting or for learning. You should also read this thread, especially message #15.

[smercurio_fc]

Addendum: I would also recommend calling your local NI sales rep as an additional source of information.

[vipul982]

I had a look at the overview pages of both academic premium suite and developer suite, I am not able to find the functional differences between them, infact academic premium suite is having more toolkits bundled. I am basically using LabVIEW for my research purpose on telemetry, Time might come when I have to implement the actual project too. I have called local NI guys about 4 times but no positive/satisfactory reply, they just say its just the licensing matter. One of the engineer says it is recommended to use developer suite for research purpose, but why??? what is the difference?

[vipul982]

I had a look at the overview pages of both academic premium suite and developer suite, I am not able to find the functional differences between them, infact academic premium suite is having more toolkits bundled. I am basically using LabVIEW for my research purpose on telemetry, Time might come when I have to implement the actual project too. I have called local NI guys about 4 times but no positive/satisfactory reply, they just say its just the licensing matter. One of the engineer says it is recommended to use developer suite for research purpose, but why??? what is the difference?

[altenbach]

The way I understand it, you can only get the academic suite if you qualify according to this page. The term "reasearch purpose" is not sufficient.

It matters if you are at a qualifying academic institution as follows. Are you?

(quote from here )

• Accredited, degree-granting institution whose primary function is the education of students. Externally sponsored research centers, nonprofits, and organizations that are only loosely affiliated with academic institutions do not qualify.
• Orders must be placed on an official university, college, or school district credit card or purchase order. Orders placed with personal credit cards do not qualify.
• Orders must be shipped to an accredited university, college, or school district and all products are to be used for academic purposes only.

(read the entire page)

[smercurio_fc]

You said you're doing research on telemetry. Unfortunately, this is way too vague.

I agree with altenbach that based on what you've said it does not seem as if  you would not qualify for the academic license. That said, there are 4 editions of LabVIEW: Base, Full, Professional, and Developer Suite. Forget Base - don't even bother with it. Full contains all of the LabVIEW core functions, but no Application Builder or SCC integration. No additional toolkits are included (like the Report Generation Toolkit, Database Toolkit, etc). Professional adds the App Build and SCC integration. Still no toolkits. The Developer Suite adds a bunch of toolkits. The whole list is here: http://www.ni.com/labview/buy/learn/?dev 

Now which one do you need? Kind of depends on what your "research purpose on telemetry" is, and what you intend to do with the code. Do you need to create reports in Word/Excel? If so, you can program this yourself with ActiveX, or you can buy the Report Generation Toolkit. Do you need to do PID? If so, you can do this yourself using the LabVIEW core functions, or you can buy the PID Control Toolkit. Do you need to talk to a database? If so, you can do this yourself using the LabVIEW core functions and the free LabSQL, or you can buy the Database Toolkit. Do you need to do any kind of ftp, telnet, or HTTPS communication? If so you can program this yourself using the LabVIEW core functions, or you can buy the Internet Toolkit. Do you need to do vision stuff? If so you can program this yourself using the LabVIEW core functions, or you can buy NI Vision...